Oh Dear......

Post by **Magicfinger** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:05 am

Well after a few hours playing with the arcade source.... (cant quite keep up wit Mit's 22 mins)

Tractor Snake has arrived {sigh}

screen shot.....

Stuff already working

Score increases
Speed increases
collision detect with walls/whatever it is you collect/and itself
good movement
menus

well as you can see i am able to program ... but i am definitley no artist

so if anyone wants to re-design the sprites for me it would be greatly appreciated

p.s that was meant to be smoke coming out the back of a tractor

Post by **DeVice** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 12:55 pm

Oh that's neat. Good Job. A new reason to head to the bar/pub

Post by **Mit** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:10 pm

sweet

when do we get to play?

Post by **Magicfinger** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:17 pm

Just need todo a few tidy ups to do with variable screen widths which i will do after work tonight...

and finish off commenting code so others can see where its going if they want to look at it.

thought i might throw in a high score bit for it and then its done.

p.s is there any way of getting the current user name into the arcade for recording scores?

so in answer to your question... tommorow

p.p.s whats the best way of releasing this so others can play?

Post by **Mit** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:22 pm

kewl :]
I'll look into added some more features like being able to access user name (and also the other cash access stuff that Legogirl requested) sometime after the next release of the game.
Some of it might be a lil awkward because accessing stuff in the main game from the arcade.dll breaks its modularity somewhat (and coz its a .dll thats often not possible), so it might need a bit of rearranging.

Post by **Magicfinger** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:23 pm

ok thnx

as a temporary solution i will add a user input for recording scores.

LegoGirl · Post by **LegoGirl** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 2:19 pm

Excellent!!
That reminds me of rainy lunchtimes at school...oh so many years ago.

Post by **Fooli** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:00 pm

Yay! Sneech here we come :) Looks good. If it were me, to overcome artistic limitations and forget about the whole tractor thing, which is soooo 03 (heh)... why not use the classic tron coloured lines approach?
f

Post by **Magicfinger** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:44 pm

well i was trying to decide if just to use a basic snake... but its only a bmp so easy to change

will try and make it look a bit better tonight

excellent if we move them away from tractors cos im thinking of doing a bubble bobble clone next and was a bit difficult to tie in .

Post by **Fooli** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:16 pm

Before ppl freak out, i only mean that tractors aren't the only focus these days... anything goes, including tractors, giant giraffes, wotever :)
f

Mattizme · Post by **Mattizme** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:28 pm

MagicFinger, if u send it over I'll knock it off the Bar Games List. I'd go for a shameless link here, but I'm lazy.

Feel like helping out? I have a list of approx 12 games :]

LegoGirl · Post by **LegoGirl** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:30 pm

Go on then...list 'em

Mattizme · Post by **Mattizme** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:50 pm

http://www.gameislands.net/tinboard/viewtopic.php?t=65

There. enjoy. Remind me to knock snake off at some point :]

Post by **Magicfinger** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 11:34 am

hhmmm fell asleep in chair watching ER last night

so will post a link to it tonight

Lord_Ephialtes · Post by **Lord_Ephialtes** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:48 pm

Heh! I cant do C++ to save my life! Nice going Magic!

Post by **Magicfinger** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 11:10 pm

ok its finished (i think

)

just need somebody i can email the file to as i have no file hosting capbiltites

then that my part mit

....
...
...
okay scrub the bit above...decided to setup a quick server....so

http://magicfinger.no-ip.com/downloads/arcadesnake.zip

Whirl · Post by **Whirl** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 3:14 pm

Very nice